Skeletons From the Closet

[lawnrrd]

What with the alien sucking out her life force from the inside, my wife has been thinking much about baby-related things. A few days ago, she asked me if I knew where my baby book was. (For those unfamiliar with such things, it's a book that parents keep, recording milestones in your development, amusing events, etc. It's primarily so they can humiliate and blackmail you later in life.) I knew we had it around somewhere, but I couldn't remember where.

Last night, sorting through books in preparation for our coming move, Lauren found my baby book and set it aside. Looking through it, I found the following troubling entry:

Age 2 1/2: Jon can sing "Mama" from Cabaret.

**boggles**

Comments

[artemitis.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[oxymoronnyc.livejournal.com]

Wrong team. Wrong team!



What might've been.....

[lawnrrd]

Well, Lauren's not through with me yet, and she has a long track record of recruiting for the other team.

[evangelisa.livejournal.com]

explains a lot;)

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Proof! Proof!

[lawnrrd]

Well, preferably ninety proof.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

This leads to a whole new set of questions:

Why did your parents start you off with Cabaret?

Why that song?

All the verses?

Can you sing it now?

In what range? And what key?

[lawnrrd]

I don't think that anyone planned it that way. My guess is that my mother saw the show and was quite taken with it. She thus (a) bought the cast recording and played it constantly; (b) sang the songs over and over while attending to her motherly tasks; or (c) both. I just picked it up by observation.

I don't know if I learned all the verses then. I suspect not. In any case, I certainly don't remember it now. Which is not to say I couldn't learn, if motivated.

The motivating part may be hard. Hard.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Chocolate-dipped raspberries and scantily-clad maidens serving them to you? This can be arranged, you know.

[lawnrrd]

Strawberries, please.

[lawnrrd]

Actually, I misremembered. I just looked in the book, and what it says is:

2 1/2 -> [Jon] can sing the entire song, "MAMA" from the show Cabaret.

** boggles again **

You realize, of course,

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

that you should bone up on the lyrics, and bring the book in to Rose's one night.

Re: You realize, of course,

[lawnrrd]

While wearing my leathers, I suppose.

Re: You realize, of course,

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Let me know what night you're doing that. There will be far too many men drooling at the bar for me to wear open shoes.